Zakir Rashid Bhat

Zakir Rashid Bhat (1994-) was the founder and chief of al-Qaeda's Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind cell in Kashmir.

Biography
Zakir Rashid Bhat was born in Tral, Jammu and Kashmir, India in 1994, and he left university in Chandigarh in 2013 after failing his exams. He joined Hizbul Mujahideen that autumn, and he became part of a new generation of tech-savvy, well-educated militants. He quit HM after it refused to back his statements that the Kashmir conflict was for Islam and was not political, and, on 27 July 2017, he was announced as the founding chief of al-Qaeda's Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind cell. On 31 August 2017, he attacked Pakistan for betraying the Kashmiri jihad, and he also threatened to "liberate India" from the Hindus' however, Hizbul Mujahideen accused him of being an Indian agent.